A Commission Mission had never been a mission one could survive simply by earning gold coins from one project after another.
Ever since they had surfaced, the true core of this mission had still revolved around "ghosts."
It was merely that this ghost's shadow had blanketed the entire Orange Lake, making everything appear immensely vast and fragmented on the surface.
Before the mission began, Fang Shenyan had already caught their scent and plainly stated that they were hiding from him.
From the very beginning, this had bestowed upon them certain traits—macroscopic and mysterious.
If the entire mission was regarded as a ghost, then the collision between the death route and the survival route emerged, leading to the Man in Suit as the initial clue.
He claimed at every turn to represent the "official rules," yet his every action was filled with "selfish motives."
He was the breakthrough for everything, as well as the only route to survival given to the employees.
From Orange Lake Castle's perspective, Ji Li could not truly see through his identity, but his perfect grasp of the rules was enough to let him understand how the survival route should be carried out.
From the Haunted House's perspective, Fang Shenyan had also successfully brought the Man in Suit's true body outside Orange Lake.
This mission had broken every convention. Heavenly Sea had actually designed a "hidden ghost" to serve as the employees' route to survival. It was truly astonishing.
Rules came in two kinds as well.
Li Yi had once asked Ji Li how they could escape an ending where everyone died together.
The reason he asked was, in truth, because of his defeatist and passive attitude toward the mission.
If he had delved into the mission as deeply as Ji Li had, it would not have